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Glenn Loury on Race Relations, how to be a good student, and reflections on his brilliant career
An interview with one of the world's great living teachers
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Ben Crocker
God and Man at Old Parkland
Academic inquiry has found a new home in Texas
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August 2023

Flights of Fancy catch up with Airline
How an incompetent, immoral QANTAS distorts the laws of economics
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Ben Crocker
Public and Private Presidents
Two exceptionally good counter-portraits, in challenge to popular opinion
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Ben Crocker
The Russian Tragedy
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” Perhaps the most famous opening line in all of literature, Tolstoy’s words…
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Ben Crocker

July 2023

Pleasure, Pain, and Moral Virtue: On Aristotle's Index to Human Characteristics
Exploring Book 2, of the Great Philosopher's Ethics
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Ben Crocker

June 2023

Affirmative Action is Dead: But what will the future hold for America's Universities?
The Supreme Court strikes down discriminatory admissions policy 6-3
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Ben Crocker
David Hume's First Principles of Government: Is Force really on the side of the Governed?
The power of opinion, from Antiquity to the Present Day
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Ben Crocker
The Malaise within the Democratic Soul
Alexis de Tocqueville's prophetic picture of American Life
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Ben Crocker

May 2023

April 2023

Machine Guns are No Small Beer for Kid Rock
But is the Hillbilly icon missing the real target?
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Ben Crocker
Liberal illiteracy threatens the world
Only a massive reinvestment in education may arrest the damage
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Ben Crocker
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